Educational Theorists Flashcards
the bond between a young child and his parents
Attachment
the capacity to act independently
Autonomy
Piaget’s third stage of development, lasting from about six to twelve years of age, during which children use reasoning to make judgements.
Concrete Operations
the process by which a child creates a mental explanation for her experience or perceptions, according to Piaget
.Construction of Knowledge
think of everything one encounters only as it relates to oneself; seeing the world from only one’s point of view.
Egocentric
the ability to put oneself in another person’s place and understand what he or she might feel.
Empathy
the ability to manage or regulate basic cognitive and emotional processes, such as self-regulation, the ability to focus on tasks, the ability to organize thoughts and materials, and the ability to follow through and complete tasks
Executive Function
coming from without; imposed by something or someone else
Extrinsic
coming from within; part of the nature of something
Intrinsic
the point at which a baby realizes that objects exist even when he cannot see them
.Object Permanence
an activity or question without a pre-determined product or answer
Open - Ended
Piaget’s second stage of cognitive development, lasting from 18 months to about 6 years of age, during which children learn based on their perceptions and experience.
Preoperational
without thought
Reflexive
term for the assistance a peer or adult offers a child that helps her learn a skill or develop knowledge she could not develop on her own.
Scaffolding
Vygotsky’s term for the distance between the most difficult task a child can do alone and the most difficult task a child can do with help; the area of development a child has not reached on his own but that he can reach with the input of others.
Zone of Proximal Development - ZPD
